Every year about 800 foreign students come to Germany as foreign-language assistants (FLA) to be placed in host schools and support the local subject-specialist teachers in their native languages. The FLA assist the teachers during 12 lessons per week and help make the situation of learning a foreign language lively and inspiring for the pupils.

The FLA’s responsibilities include

• language tutorials and providing information for cultural studies lessons
• role playing or rehearsing exam situations with the pupils
• conversation exercises in small groups
• preparing illustrative and teaching materials.

students from Australia, Belgium, Canada (anglophones and Quebec), France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and China.

As a rule, the future foreign-language assistants should have completed a degree course of at least 2 years at a higher education institution in their home countries with one of the subjects being German.

about 800 grants each year

about 6 to 9 months

International students may apply directly in their home countries. The contact data of the relevant partner organisations are available here.

The competent partner organisations in your country of origin will provide you with the application deadlines. Please find a detailed list at the website of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs.